Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 504: Battle of Wuzhou

? "Yangtze River, Nandu, this domain will come back!"

In the Yangshan sea area in the southeast, a sudden hurricane destroyed the huge fleet of the Yanping County King, causing the Yanping domain to lose tens of thousands of elite soldiers, countless armaments, and heavy losses. Under the persuasion of Zhang Huangyan, the Minister of War, and Chen Yonghua, who joined the army, Zheng Sen, the king of Yanping, finally returned to Jinsha with his unwillingness to lead the remaining fleet. But he did not despair nor gave up. When he looked back at the sea in the north, he was determined to come again next year!

At the same time, five miles to the east of Wuzhou City, Guangxi, thousands of miles away, the red silk and gilt border flags of the Second Town of the Taiping Army, cavalry and artillerymen fluttered high on a hillside. The golden drums roared at the foot of the mountain, and the flags of the brigades, battalions, and guards and the uniforms of the soldiers merged into a sea of ​​red.

Zhou Shixiang, the commander of the Taiping Army, forbade soldiers to be generals. After the Zhaoqing Military Conference ended, he strictly ordered the old banners with the generals' surnames to be abolished, and all banners with beasts were given instead. In order, the flag of the pro-military Iron Man Wei Pixiu, the first town is the tiger flag, the second town is the lion flag, the third town is the Xiongzi flag, the fourth town is the clouded leopard flag, the fifth town is the unicorn flag, and the sixth town is the bear. The Qi army flag, the seventh town is the Pegasus army flag, the eighth town is the Shanying army flag, and the ninth town is the elk army flag...

According to the regulations of the old Taiping Army, when the flag is presented, the soldiers must be fully dressed in full costumes, and step forward in turn to swear - "The flag is there, and the flag is dead!"

The Infantry Code of Conduct formulated by the Military Commander's Mansion makes it clear that when the troops conduct school drills every day, they must first swear to the military flag, and then sing the song of killing Tartar as ordered by the commander-in-chief. This, coupled with the various preferential treatment policies for soldiers being implemented in Guangdong and the constant promotion of the heroic deeds of the commander and the town by the military envoys of various sizes, makes the officers and soldiers of each town feel that they are a hero who acts for heaven as long as they mention the Taiping Army. At the same time, the sense of belonging to the Taiping Army is stronger.

As one of the old four towns of the Taiping Army, the second town has participated in the Xinhui city defense battle, the Xiangshan anti-three-way encirclement and suppression battle, the surprise attack on Guangzhou city, and the Lufeng defense battle... The town can be said to have made great military achievements, and heroic deeds are endless. Today, Second Town, as the head army of King Guiqin who was personally ordered by the commander, has high morale throughout the town. They wear red military uniforms made by the Xiangshan Military Uniform Factory, and hold spears, shield swords, wolves, borers, fire guns, etc. All kinds of weapons lined up neatly and looked at Wuzhou City ahead.

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In the city of Wuzhou, a devout Muslim, Ma Xiong, who was originally scheduled to be the chief soldier under the Nanfan and is now the chief soldier left behind in Guangxi, decided to go out of the city to repel the Taiping army that came from the Liujiang River. Otherwise, he believed that there would be no end to the Liujiang River. The Ming army navy will transport more Taiping troops from Guangdong to Wuzhou city.

Ma Xiong is a native of Guyuan, Shaanxi, and the adopted son of Ma Jiaolin, the former Admiral of Guangxi. In the ninth year of Shunzhi, he served as the commander-in-chief of the left wing under King Dingnan. In the tenth year of Shunzhi, he was awarded the second-class man to guard Guangxi by the Qing court and the commander-in-chief for his meritorious deeds in Hunan and Guangxi. When Guangxi Admiral Guoan went to Guizhou with Zhao Butai, he had two candidates for him to choose to stay in Guangxi, one was Ma Xiong, the commander of Wuzhou, and the other was Quanji, the commander of the right wing. After repeated weighing, Xian Guoan finally decided to let Quanji follow him into Guizhou, and ordered Ma Xiong to stay in Guangxi. He was responsible for promoting and commanding all the Qing troops who stayed in Guangxi as the remaining chief soldier. Even the governor of Guangxi, Chen Weixin, could not Compare.

After discovering the sudden appearance of a large-scale troop transport by the Ming army navy on the Liujiang River, Ma Xiong knew that what he was most worried about in the letter before the month of the Admiral's line Guoan had happened - after the Taiping army in Guangdong had won the Chaohui victory and defeated Prince Jian's army of Jidu, Finally turned around to enter the King of Southwest Qin. And Guangxi is the place where their Qin King must pass, and the important town Wuzhou is the place they must win!

Ma Xiong did not underestimate the enemy. He knew that the Taiping army that could destroy the eight banners one after another was by no means an ordinary Ming army, so he maintained enough patience from the beginning to prepare to defend Wuzhou and use Wuzhou City to consume the Taiping army from afar to attack their troops. Morale eventually turned the Taiping Army into a tired division. However, after discovering that the Taiping Army was constantly bringing in new troops and horses by the navy, and among them were cavalry and artillery, Ma Xiong changed his mind. He decided to go out of the city to defeat the Ming army ashore, and then destroy the wharf on the Liujiang River in order to prevent More Taiping troops landed.

The Qing infantrymen who left the city were placed in a rank formation by Ma Xiong. The reason for this was that the front line was defeated and the next two lines delayed the advance of the Taiping infantry. Once the infantry of the Taiping Army were involved in the Qing army's large formation, the gap between their formations would be exposed, which just gave his cavalry a decisive opportunity to attack.

Up to now, the situation of the battle was still under Ma Xiong's expectations and control. The only thing that surprised him was that the Taiping army took less than a moment to hold down his front line and could hardly hold it back. From the time point of view, the Taiping Army's physical strength is far from being consumed.

After the infantry formation was once again oppressed and retreated by the Taiping Army, Ma Xiong no longer hesitated, waved the flag to the right, and the sound of the conch immediately sounded beside him. The 2,000-odd cavalrymen of Ma Xiong's headquarters on the right wing, who had been waiting for a long time, jumped on their horses skillfully immediately after hearing the order, shouted "Bless Hu!"

Thousands of horses galloping, shaking the world!

Ma Xiong's cavalry commander, Heiga, took the lead with unlimited pride. He imagined the tragic situation when the South Barbarians collapsed~www.NovelMTL.com~ and how many heads of the Ming army could be chopped off later, and how much merit and future he could exchange for himself, the corners of his mouth could not help raising his lips.

Four hundred paces, three hundred paces, two hundred paces, a puff of smoke filled the formation on the opposite side, followed by lead pellets scattered like a torrential rain. The small projectile carried the huge kinetic energy generated by the explosion of gunpowder, and violently collided with the horses and horses galloping on the opposite side. The cavalry of the Qing army suddenly burst into countless blood flowers just like the grasslands in spring, and then dispersed into fog.

Heiga was shocked when he heard the screams behind him, looked down at his chest, and was not shot!

Hu Dabao... He hadn't yet remembered the word "bless", another round of lead pellets flew in, and President Hei Qian suddenly flew out as if he had hit a wall. It turned out that the mount was hit, and the huge inertia threw him forward, hitting the ground heavily.

Two rounds of volleys of fire guns swept down the nearly 100 Qing army cavalrymen who rushed in front, but the Qing army cavalry behind them still rushed up on their horses regardless of their lives. Most of them were veterans from Guyuan who had moved to several provinces with Ma Jiaolin and Ma Xiong. They only knew that as long as they got into the battle, these Han Chinese bird guns could only be used as fire sticks. He couldn't help but slammed the horse's whip and accelerated the impact. On the battlefield, the sound of Hu Da's blessing, the sound of horses' hooves stepping on the ground and the strange screams mixed together, making people shudder. (To be continued.)

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